The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 233, 30 September 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1872.

Commission of the Peace. — The Gazette of Wednesday lost contains the appointment of Edmund 1 DavidsoD, Esq., , of the Collipgwood district, as a Justice of ; the Peace. : * ,:Steather Bawgitoto.— This? 'steamer will arrive from Wellington at 8 o'clock to.-mor^ow moi'uing, and sail again ;.for Melbourne, via the West Coast, by the, evening's tide. r•: • ■ . ; ' i ->: ,-'. Tde Auckland, correspondent of the Lyitelion Times informs us that the hon. member for Eden district (Mr. Oreighton) forwarded from Wellington, per telegraph, three leading articles a week for insertion in the Herald. ... .. . The Suez Mails.; — The inward English mail, via Suez, was due in Melbourne on the 24th instant, and may be expected to arrive at Hokitika to-day, by the Albion, which was announced to leave Melbourne last Wednesday, The latest dates from London will be : — By post to 9th August; by telegraph to Galie to 30th August, or ] 1 days later than the Nebraska's dates. — The out-going Suez mail will be despatched by the Rangitoto to-morrow. The Superintendent of Marl-borough.—-In commenting upon, the remarks we recently had occasion to make upon the action taken by the Superintendent of Marlborougb in connection with the Picton railway, the Marlborough Express says: — -" We.. cordially agree with the remarks of our contemporary as to Mr. Seymour's perseverance, and had lie known that gentleman as we df Marlborough do, he might have said : even more; for not only has Mr. Seymour shown great energy in this matter of late, but for the Itist ten years he has used that energy to the desired end- at great personal cost and labor. His heart was in the race, and he has won it." Aetizans' Association. — Friday even- ! ing's entertainment, which was given in aid of the widow of the late Mr. Francis Robinson, was not so well attended as might have been expected, but this was, no doubt, attributablo to the bad weather that prevailed. In a short opening address, Mr. Burn, M.P.C., the President, stated that the Society had bow been in existence for more than seven years, its object being the mutual improvement of its members, the ordinary entertainments being given for maintaining the funds. That which was then to be given, however, was as they all knew, for a charitable object. The first part of the programme comprised songs, choruses, readings, &C,, which, as a .rule, were exceedingly well executed, those most deserving of mention being the opening chorus "Rejoice,; Rejoice," the song " The Angels are calling;" the comic songs, which gave rise to great laughter, and were of course encored,- and the final round, " London's Burning," nor must we omit to notice the valuable assistance rendered by Mr, Oakey , on the pianoforte. The farce of i( Wilful . Murder" with which the performance closed, was capitally acted, especially by the gentlemen wire undertook the characterw of Consol, Sphoon,-an& Featherly. The get-up of , the ladies,, too, was well; managed, but; Rhoda unfortunately com-; ported herself '■■' with such excessive - modesty that her voice was scarcely to.jje!. heard.. In every respect but the/finapcial',:; the entertainment was highly ; successful, and we can only regret that the rain 'prevented' a ■ larger audience 'being presents A It is, we .understand, proposed, to give another" entertainment for the same object on Friday next. West CoAST.T-Exfcraets.fro,!!! a private letter, from Greyinoath,, dated September 25 r-rr^hjEitlfissgeS: of /the, Mapr i .R^ervesjin-j Greyniouih'.ijiumtTft/be 1 effigies of i.O'Conor and White on the-, 6th™instant. Gn the .. Sa'tiir a>y^folfdsingi l ''tffe^bd<ifiijSt%olf'a^ small cannon afework 1 at a'great;rate. But .thegr^ ' Mid wipg, * pTae'sJljy,^ y"^H^ii^:Hapirepn's\ 'r^ndsjfire^fjr^

display of rockets, Roman candles, blue lights, etc. <3shJ3 s |ocal papers pretended to l^oratj^is^nltß^i'sjtasm ou the part ofjfoe '^bd^i^p, bu^tpl w|B the most unania|o|p idisplav S)f Vyblio^feeling that I jfaie iseeh. ****"* -?*&*' * * How about tire" iSu peri d tendency? I have heard the fol.lowing gentlemen named-^Collius, Luckie, and Shephard. The province has been ! considerably damaged, s biit.it'. is thy.ca'nifici) opinion that Luckie. would utterly ruin it.. The local papers are tryingjo get Luckie : elected. Tfiel/p-eo'untry petition was got; up in Grey mouth by the Keserve lessees, and it is their opinion that if- Luckie is elected Superintendent they might j*et the coal rail way Uo!JGreymo f uith iuatc/id of fo , pobden— —its natural, outlet and terminus. * '" -v,- ,','f '• '* n . .'^ter.e 'is } ]but. one nVan 'thnfc^C , know ;of; that can, rescue the, p.rQy i iijce ; fr.o.m its degraded /positidnand keeps it intact, and -that 1 -is Alfred Saunder|.;.' Is-nb.on'e • go^Bg^ ,to ; ,-sti^i e n. : .the , maUe'.r| ,, ; I shgjpld ilunirt.hei;|?'eTion;fojks bave!had en.ough^.of Luckie as thei'ri 'representative at Wellington torthinktof- electing ;hjra to^the office of chief mngistrate.. „* > *. ■[*;..,* -The Grey folks are afraid their railwny is done for. .The^ Argus thißimbrning.i-oconJrneD(lß 'hoping and pray.ingi'i^Tbe latter will bo aj.Hoyejtyj.-tq.rtmnyr; tiiey-jdoat know how ; to^set about it." The "Wellington correspondent of the I)unedm; "-Star?* says: that; .'Mr. Joshua StraDge Williams, of. Christchurch, is" to have Mr. Moorhouse's-appointment. We take ' ;J the following from the Evening Post : — A telegram published yesterday auuounced that a requisition was being signed on the Coast askiDg Mr. Luckie to stand" for' tho superintendency of Nelson, -If this be so, we -can only say that the inhabitants of the West Coast are a "peculiar people." ; On the introduction bf a' j Bill to amend the Representation Act, so as ..to, give Maoris more representation, Mr. Harrison gave notice that when the House came to the new clauses he should propose that the title of the bill be changed to, that of a bill to give increased representatioa to the goldfields districts, and he should' prbpc&e further amendments to effect that object. The Supebintendency of Wellington. — Mr. Fitzherbert has issued a circular to the members of the Wellington Provincial Council announcing his intended resignation, and asking them whether, as the Council expires by effluxion of time in June next, they would prefer being called or whether, to save expense and time, his Excellency should be asked to dissolve the Council. •/—Some excitement has-been" created. at the Lyell on account of Allen and t party;, striking a run of gold-bearing leaders last.week on a spur about two miles above the Lyell township on ;tbe' -Lyell side of the ManukauFl&t.: ; The discovery has caused a little rush, and five. new leases have been applied for; it is probable the reef, will be traced across the Flat to the bank of the Buller river. On Saturday week a somewhat novel shipment arrived by tho stonmship Nebraska at Lyttelton In the shape of two bear cubs, which have been brought from Canada^by Mr. Bray, jun. r The mother of the cubs was killed by Mr. Bray, and the animals now landed were secured by him, " and brought as a present for the Acclimatisation Society, ,-,, „ ; ... . ;. A short time ago advertisements appeared in. the Ballarat papers irtvitin^! applications from miners willing to go to Queensland, to work the copper mines; 1 ' 300 men were wanted at 10s. per day. In a few days 1500 applications were received, and 50(rpenl were selected $nd sen^l "The remainder will be forwarded at intervals. This reveals "the unsatisfactory statebf the labor market, and explains the longing to test fresh fields of adventure. In reply to a question, ,spme few .days J siuce,' : Mr. Curtis ' said tKe 'Goverrinient' would interpret the tariff as liberally as possible, so as to. provide for admission^. duty'free.HP portions of! agricaltufalu' implements and machinery. If, necessary, legislative^ action would' betakeQ^but he thought the object des.ire.d r w£uU3 acf,. complished by a liberal' interpretation of the existing law.. ,- , 3 „tn f -„ A STORY\vent ther^ounds' in Wellington to the effect, that the Maori members in the Gerferaf v !Asßembly said that they Wished, to vote on tha winning^; side, but that they were told by the Ministerialist party that the Minister$ > jw:e,re jiffy Oppositionists said 'that their side would win. Not b^l^^^a^e.-^o.^tellf.^iii^ side; was humbugging them, they therefore split their votes. — G. JR. Argus. . The PiCTON^R-AiLW&r.^Qn 'Saturday night nearly all the men employed on this end of-i tth'e Al waj^lfiiielw^d-Wcha^d, some few only of the married men being the work is not ; yet ready; for them to go ; on with; but we learn" that as soon* .as materials, axe^^^tl^v^e^^llh^^aken ■pa; : ! agaifi.^Wi;' ffe^aTso^ mfpr&ea* that _- nejgotiatioris w

of tbo laud through whichth^ljno is to usiSS»***""*.t • &»»• rift wpf f- ml^**^**' not to attempt carrying out Hnjitsjpntirety the railway scheme as already 3 agreed to. This is on Erroneous impression. We bejlieve it is the intention of the Government sto carry out all the works at present contracted -for, which will leave a balance of about ,£fQQsQp.,osi£sQo\oQ{),. r JDuriirg- the recess'su'rveys' and estimates of cost of all ; the other, works sanctioned by the Legisla? ture wifl 'bo 'prepared, • and "the Ministry : will nsk the Hou^e'oii its reassembling to! providd' the'vrnGans ffor^cbnsf'tructing 5 ' ihem. ; That any difficulty about the matter should . ever have arisen, is^-owing solely to the ' reckless ■extravapancelancl raairadrauiistration of the latOjQab.i.net.;;",- s .'. An Auckland correspondent of a Southeri). pape^ wr^es^rrrThe; projector of aicom> pony — £15,000 — proposes to cleanse wool : by a method which he describes as "new, riimplc^Wttd^'hignty e'cononiical;*' it' is also 3 'He.f.lks lectured and' experimented with , Jbik , system iQ.p.ublic, and those of us who witnessed the experiments are of b'piuib'n thjajfc'lhey, f t were very satisfactory.^. .The wool is first steeped in-cold water, then squeezed hard and' placed -in.<a liq'uidj wlfose' composition is 'not revealed — ihe wool remains in this prepartipn for five miQutes^itia 'then '.tak^a out,, .and is seen to be Deautifully T whi.te; r a,nd feels soft as the-finesksilk. Moreover, wool I saw treated was open to the points, and had lost nothing of the lustrous metallic appearance usually noticed in wool taken from healthy sheep. vl l is stated, that the liquor employed can be manufactured for 9d per gallon. _, . -,■ rV ;y: f ._,- „ ; ,,-.r T ; ■- •/ ,*_ -.> r For remainder of news see fourth page, v •'

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It has ; been; said that the intelligence of ;■., a people jCah be accurately estimated. ', by "... the; amount of their correspondence^ If New Zealand is to judged by this standard she will occupy a high place in the scale of nations. We find by Parliamentary papers that during the past year we received, from within and without the Colony, no fewer than 3,296,990 letters and 2,308,634 news- ,. papers. What an amount of reading for 266,986 men, women, and children to devour. During 1870 we received.3,olß,932 letters and 2,263,934 newspapers, by which it will be seen that our reading capacity is . considerably on the increase/ During. last year we despatched 2,784,707 letters, as against 2,626 ,947 in 1870, 1,871,150 newspapers, as coni pared with 1,622,728 in 1870 It will be. seen that the amount of our 'correspondence as a people is very con■sitierable which indicates a. considerable amount of commercial activity amongst us. •■'-.■ A Sell. — A rather clever swindle was successfully carried out on several -people in Christchurch the other day when three or four men were seen hawking what they said were new potatoes brought down. from Melbourne in the Tararua, and succeeded in placing several kits of them. Of course not a little surprise was expressed at new potatoes being in so early, but theexplana- • tion about the Tararua and the apparently bona fide appearance of the potatoes set doubts at rest with the purchasers until the time for cooking arrived, when the clever swindle was at once detected. The potatoes were, of course, old onos, which, in order to make them appear new, had been deprived of the peel, then carefully smoothed and rubbed with oil, in order to give them the requisite appearance to deceive the eye — a trick which was very cleverly executed Some of the potatoes were sold at 6d per Ib. The "Town and Couutry Journal," a : Sydney paper, draws the following picture of the state of farming in New South Wales: — Travel in whichever direction you will, ruin and desolation meet your gaze at every turn. Deserted cottage?, mansions in rump, dilapidated barn?, and decayed farm buildings, are everywhere the rule. Instead of a country scarcely done with pegtops and pinafores, the tourist beholds a country on crutches, totteringon its last legs — decrepid, tattered,. and forlorn. If here and there a different aspect may be observed, it is exceptional, and so rare that it renders, by contrast, the desolation doubly desolate. The ruins met with are eloquent witnessess of more prosperous days. Granaries and mills of various capacity tell the tale of something to store, and something to grind, but their emptiness and silence, their hingeless doors, sashless windows, moas-grown floors, smokeless chimneys, and gras3-covered approaches, are melancholy tokens of departed triumphs." A writer in the Southern Cross relates the following coachman's yarn:— "l was driven as far as Dedwood by one of the most intelligent and interesting coachmen I have ever fallen in with in my travels. He was a Canadian by birth, and gave me the history of the last twenty years of his life in something under fifteen minutes. He was years ago one of Cobb's celebrated line of American drivers, running between Melbourne and Ballarat. He told mo how once when going down to Fyan's FoTd Hill which is as a stockade wall, having six horses in hand, the brake gave way, and the horses went down the road at the rate of twenty miles an hour. He had a lady with him on the box seat with a child in her arms. He. told her to feel quite comfortable, and was cheering her when he ' seed the darn fool of a turnpike man ' down in tho distance shutting the gates instead of throwing them wide open. Then, thinking it was all up with every^ one, he told the lady to chuck the child on to the sapling hedge and say the shortest prayer she could think of. The next minute he saw his two leaders leap the gate; then the pole struck and shivered it into splinters. The coach got through, and tho horses pulled up as soon as they met the hill, . The lady stuck to the child, but had a precious good cry, with a pint of ale at the next halt; ' and,' continued J/ehu, ' that darn turnpike keeper was a-, going to summons me for smashing his gate, only be couldn't scrape enough of the pieces together which would let him swear to its indentity.'" J Refreshments', Btabling, &c, for members of the Victorian Parliament, cost the Colony £1100 a-y ear. , - : A Yijeld of 15oz, of gold to the ton has been iobtained from a reef . in the Braidwood district, owned by a Chinaman. Larrikinism is. making .way again in Sydney. 'The Herald .prescribes cowhide as a^ remedy for the disease. ; - ;':;* Bendigo, . n man named Peter 6^ his 'j aw: ; while . yawjri\ope#all"pigl]^ •; \ :^- l ;^sk .<

tenced to. two years and a half of penal servitude.' r .•.-•■;■•, ■, „ • r •„■ . .. . , Hakd-u^ iB^tLAKAt managed to^:spond £2000 in v a fortnight on opera, "in addition to diaraoud rings and bracelets thrown on the stage in bouquets. A Private Letter received in Billarat from Port Darwin mentions that H6oz. of gold were taken off the boitotn of a hole at the goldfieHs there. The Melbourne Telegraph says that "^profligacy; of ■ ;tbe; blackest and: most sickening kind 1 "comes to the surface ou Monday mornings" at the City Police Court. The fortunate winner of some prizes recently offered at the .Theatre ..lJoy.al,, Castleraaiue, was compelled to canryoff ;a live pig, a hen turkey, and a half-hundred-weight of pork, TriE Geave of a person buried in S*. John's Cemetery, Parramntta, in the year 1800, was opened a short time. since., /The.' coffin, which was made of blue gum, was < found to be perfectly sound — not the slightest decay in any part off the wood. A New Daily Paper is to be started in Sydney. The proposed . capital,.. is £60,000, may .be., increased v. to £w(ffiQ(£m shares of £l; ; eacb,(ond if is. stated-t'liU't- sharer \6 theexlent of £] 0,255 were taken up at a preliminary meeting. A Lady who had her jawbone broken and three teeth knocked out in a railway collision in Victoria, got. £40" fdariiages. A bank maaager, who ouly got Iris- cose bruised and his eyes blackened in collision received £100 damages. One of the finest pastoral properties in Central Queensland was recently sold. It was Catherstone, lately o.wned by Mr. John Thome,, and situated on the! Peak Downs. The sheep realised 12s. and the cattle 505., the total purchase money amounting to £31,500. Th 9 following incident is said to have taken place in one of the most fashionable squares in London. We must premise that a lucky Thames digger met an " old chum" in the streets of London* The' following conversation took place:^-" I say, 'old horse,' come and dine with me to-night at half-past seven." "All right, ' old man ' let's liquor." — Liquored accordingly, and then parted. The invitee appeared at the appointed hour. Cabman knocked at door, which waa immediately opened by a "John Thomas" in gorgeous array. ', Old horse" enters ; is handed from one flunkey to another, till he arrived iv the august presence of Mr. and Mrs. "Old man." "Old horse "said, "This is too many for me — I'm off," — and offed accordingly. ... „ > . How certain of the fraternity who persist in honoring weddings with "tin kettliog s? inebriates were served a return trick is recounted at some length by the Qveanbeyan Age :— " After kicking'up a most unearthly row for some time they retired to the back of a paddock close by, whore they secured their horses to the rails, and again resumed their disorderly conduct. In the meantime, however, one of the inmates of the house contrived to get through a winiow, and, with carving-knife in hand, proceeded, unnoticed to the place where the horses were, and in far less time, than it would take to, tell r this. story, cut the bridles and girths; allowing' thehorses to go at large, which. they were not slow to do with tinpot music at their tails. But alas ! what sorrow and dismay was pictured in the countenances of the poor wretches who. half-perished, halfstarved, were seen running in all directions in search of their not- to-be-found horses. Lost they were; and sold, yes, most effectually sold, were the. band who thought to ridicule and annoy others. One or two valuable horses and saddles are missing, and as to the riders, '. they 'had to travel home on Shank's mare, a distance of [several miles, while they had, an opportunity of reflecting ; over their folly and disgraceful conduct.", > ; ; i . ;'. :'■"■'.'.:■ .':■' An American paper says: — "It. sbmotimes looks to us as if this American people were destined to .break, do wb : in the very flush of its power,. from. physical causes.- , As a peopje/we' do notjKridw; how to play. * 'OF all arts we are the most, backward in '"this. :"H-^We i ? can '. ; wln^wlr*- can ■ talk; we can: light —^ut .we, cannot {Jay^ We do not play. W r e^ are always r intent on business. an incident ' in ! 't'ne midst of strenuous activity. Wffareifor everVgoihg. Wlien it is not our own business, it is the business of the church or of society. We stop long enough to. eat and sleep, simply because we cannot help ourselves;; 3But the eating and sleeping^arej thr,ust in^edgje-v wise, as it were, 'Tiey "are i Intrusions; aadiiwe. diepa'tch/thera -a'uhW highest, speed, and carry our cares to the meals,~aW into" our dreams. If we_prpfess tp/taka { amuge» |r men t, weso manage)^ to k|ep i\p |he fulll tension of the system j. vye dbg it ;. hard. ;The liel^U^g^l^x^^^^^re is.i&l* only 'physical' disability;^bjo;jnmal ,uv; sfirimity|* ; the:^mn^^ ; raakingj,o^